Title: The Children
of Men
Author: P. D. James
Publisher/Date:
Recorded Books, LLC – 1993
IBSN: 1-4193-2343-1
Narrated by: John
Franklyn Robbins
CDs/Hours: 9/10.5
Dates listened to:
12/25/16 – 1/4/17
“PD James, best-selling author of the Adam Dalgliesh mystery
series, has proven herself adept at writing novels that are suspenseful without
being gratuitously violent, complex with being complicated. Her characters are convincing and their
plights believable, which makes The Children of Men all the more compelling.
“The human race faces extinction. It is annihilation brought not by disease or
nuclear war, not by crashing meteorites or colliding stars. Men and women have ceased simply to procreate. In 1994, sperm counts hit zero, pediatrics
wards were rapidly and permanently depleted.
Overnight, it seemed, the human race had lost its power to breed.
“The last generation of children to offer mankind a chance
was born in 1995 – the Omegas. Coddled
and overprotected, the Omega were the world’s last, great hope. When they, too, reached sexual maturity
unable to breed, everyone realized homo-sapiens had become a doomed commodity.
“Now 25 years later, a pervasive lethargy blankets the
world. Pornography has been
legalized. Massive numbers of people
have fled back to the cities, fearful of encroaching nature. Ritualistic suicides are sanctioned by the
government as a means of ridding countries of their surplus elderly. Anarchy reigns in the prisons, immigrants are
enslaved, renegade Omegas terrorize the land.”
This book is set in 2021 Great Britain and we find Theo
approached by Juliann to join a resistance group and approach the hierarchy of
the land in an attempt to staunch the anarchy.
Children of Men is also a British movie made in 2006 and for which I’m
on the waiting list at the public library and am 50th in line!
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